Gabriella Smith
November 19, 2008 by admin
Filed under Composer Biographies
Gabriella Smith, composer
Name: Gabriella Smith
Age: 17
From: Berkeley, CA
Watch ADORNO perform Gabriella’s “Somniballare”
Composer Biography:
Gabriella Smith is a prolific young composer from the San Franisco Bay Area. She studies composition with composer/pianist Arkadi Serper of the Crowden School in Berekeley, CA, and composer Yiorgos Vassilandonakis of the University of California, Berkeley. She is also an active pianist and violinist. Becuase she is a young composer, her boigraphy is a short one, but when Kent Nagano intrdocued her Dances of the Isuan Interval to a Berkeley Sympoony audience in December 2006, he said, “I think what you’ll hear in terms of aesthetic and creatvie spirit and development is far, far more mature than what” Gabriella’s age would suggest. Gabriella’s compositions have been performend in concert eight times over the last several years, and she already has quite a long list of compositions to her credit.
Works List:
Quartet for Violin, Piano, and Percussion - August 16, 2008
To Spring (for Chorus) - July 29, 2008
Somniballare (for bassoon, Piano and percussion) - July 23, 2008
Fanfare for the Return of the Salmon (for Brass Ensemble) - July 13, 2008
Convocation for String Quartet and Piano - June 28, 2008
Quintet for String Quartet and Double Bass - June 11, 2008
Nocturne for Piano - May 22, 2008
Childhood with Papagena (Arrangement for two pianos) - May 22, 2008
Childhood with Papagena: Music for Harp and Piano - April 24, 2008
Seascapes for Orchestra - April 2008
String Quartet No. 1 - April 2008
Somniballare for Cello, Piano, and Percussion - January 10, 2008
Music for Strings, Harp and Percussion - November 2007
Piano Trio - 2007
Dances of the Issuam Interval for Orchestra - June 2006
Two Movements for Wind Quintet - December 2005
Woodwind Trio for Flute, Oboe, and Bassoon - September 2005
Scherzo for Piano - July 2005
March-like Piece for Piano Four Hands - August 2004
Woodwind Trio for Fulte, Clarinet, and Bassoon - May 2004
“The Fiddler of Dooney” Trio for Voice, Violin, and Piano - April 2004
2 Pentatonic Pieces for Violin and Piano - February 2004
Twenty-four Preludes for Piano - February 2004
Eight Modal Fantasies for Piano - August 2003
18 Early Pieces (for Piano or Small Ensemble) - June 20, 2000 to May 2003
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